CD `Musicians and Singers of Argyll and the Islands Vol. 1`.
Twenty-two tracks of music including Angus MacPhail`s Band.
1999.213.1
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1999.213.17
Audio cassette `Tir Mo Ghraidh`.
Selection of Gaelic song, story and music.
1999.217.20
CD `World Library of Folk Music and Primitive Music: Scotland`.
Forty-three tracks of Scottish music.
1999.217.21
Audio cassette copy of CD `World Library of Folk Music and Primitive Music: Scotland`.
Forty-three tracks of Scottish music.
1999.191.4
Audio cassette and booklet `Calum & Annie Johnston`, Scottish Tradition No. 13.
Songs, stories and piping performed by Calum and Annie Johnston and recorded by the School of Scottish Studies. Accompanying booklet on Bookshelves `Bardachd`.
De-accessioned 2.3.26.
2003.94.1
Christina MacNeill with her son Malcolm MacLean
Photograph of Christina MacNeill with her son Malcolm MacLean.
Courtesy of Mr Iain MacKinnon
Christina MacNeill is pictured here sitting at her spinning wheel. Standing behind her is her son Malcolm MacLean. Known as ‘Calum Salum’, he was a keen piper all his life and would play for dances in Salum and from the rocks at the shore to the seals.
Among his many activities, Calum ran a shop and a boarding house in Salum, the latter with help of his step-father Lachie MacNeill. He also ran two cars in what became a very busy taxi service for the east end of the island.
For many years he served as the District Councillor for Tiree. He was well-known for his beautiful handwriting and his stories which entertained visitors and locals alike.
Black and white photograph of Calum Salum and his mother, Christina MacNeill.
Malcolm MacLean (Calum Salum) with his bagpipes and his mother Christina MacNeill (Ciorstaidh Mhunn) with carding combs and a spinning wheel.
1998.323.19
Hardback book `Scotland`s Music` by John Purser.
Descriptions of classical and traditional music from the 8th century to the present day, with colour illustrations.
1999.113.2
Carting marram grass
Photograph of two crofters carting marram grass from behind Ben Hough in the 1930s.
Courtesy of Mrs Grace Campbell
The two men are transporting marram grass, known locally as bent or muran, from behind Ben Hough at the west end of Tiree. The dried grass is used for thatching roofs while the roots were used as a scourer for cleaning tables and floors.
The grass is cut by sickle or scythe between September and March, outwith its growing season, and is much harder work than cutting corn or hay. The longer the stem the better, as a more waterproof roof is ensured and less work required.
Muran thrives best in shifting sand and grows stronger after cutting. There is less on Tiree today than there used to be. This may be due to the use of fertilisers which encourage the growth of other grasses and the out-wintering of cattle which shelter in the dunes and trample and eat it.
Black and white photograph of piper Hugh MacArthur in 1944.
Piper Hugh MacArthur in 1944.
2003.41.1
Audio cassette recorded Mary Davies and family for her Jessie Ann Goddard in Singapore.
Mary Davies of Crossapol and her family send a Christmas message to her sister Jessie Ann Goddard and her family in Singapore, with a song sung by Mary’s daughters Monica and Donna, a recording of Glasgow Police Pipe Band and Gaelic songs from Se Ur Beatha.
1999.229.1
Colour photograph of Gordon Connell and Lachie Campbell in 1980-81.
L-R: Gordon Connell, Crossapol, on the accordion and Lachie Campbell, Cornaigbeg, on the pipes in the Coll Hotel in 1980-81.
